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NAME OF OPERATION - Ang

Posted: Sep 17, 2010

Isn't there an operation called a C-LIFF or something close to that? The patient is having a laminectomy - can't find this in google MT .....? Neurosurgeon dictating.

TLIF? - LK

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Could it be a transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, or TLIF.

TLIF - ANG

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That is probably what I was thinking of - but he said it 3 times and it always sounded like he was saying "Cliff" - as 1 word,like the name - anyway, thanks for the help!

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